For the last 10 weeks, I've been dieting down with the goal of getting to single digit body fat levels. While I haven't gotten a DEXA scan to confirm it, I think I've reached my goal (just barely)! Before going
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Over the last couple weeks, I've had the pleasure of studying Azat Mardan's recent book "Practical Node.js" cover to cover. I've found the book to be very well written and informative, and is probably the most useful and practical
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There are numerous ways Ghost can be hosted on Microsoft Azure, each with their own set of pros and cons. In this guide, I'll describe the shortcomings of these methods, and propose a new solution that avoids their pitfalls. Existing
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Being swamped with work at Hack Reactor, I failed to keep up my weekly blogging habit. My apologies to anyone following along! Attending Hack Reactor is one of the best decisions I've ever made. Being immersed in a community of
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The last couple of weeks have been the best ones yet, but have also been the hardest. In Week 4, we focused exclusively on server-side development using Node.js, Express.js, MySQL, and a couple different ORMS. Week 5 followed
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It's hard to believe that another week has already gone by! This was the first week we stepped out of javascript and computer science fundamentals, and really started thinking about application development. The week kicked off with a simple jQuery
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